Urban clusters as growth foci

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 287-310

  Portnov, Boris A ^a   Schwartz, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMMUTING; POPULATION GROWTH; SMALL TOWN; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 65449135545     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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